
OSCON 2012 => Monday Ignited, Tuesday OpenShift Session ++
OSCON 2012 Opening Doors Today kicked off with a monster Reggie Biscuit from Pine State Biscuits. If you live in Portland or are visiting just for the conference and like soul food of the tastiest nature, check it out. My first day ended up not as planned. Instead of attending sessions I ended up meeting […]

#nodejs, why I’m basically porting EVERYTHING to it…
Here’s my list of why I’m moving everything to Node.js that I run. Between the enhancements Google gave to JavaScript and the ease of use in writing with the language, it provides the least resistance of any framework and language stack out there. Node.js + Express.js or Bricks.js + Jade + Every DB Choice on […]

AppFog, Fort of Awesome & Node PDX Updated!
Time for the secret to be out of the bag. I’m currently working on contract with the awesome company of AppFog in the Fort of Awesome. Let me tell you, it is indeed awesome too! You might ask why I am working with them? How do I align with them? What is it they do? […]

PaaS Is The Future Of Cloud Services: CloudFoundry Is Ramping Up Big Time
I have high hopes on CloudFoundry (previous CloudAve coverage), VMware’s PaaS attempt, and consider the platform to be the standard for comparison in the PaaS space. Looks like it is not going to change anytime soon and last week showed that they are having ever increasing momentum in the market. No, they are not VMware’s […]

PaaS Is The Future Of Cloud Services: AppFog Adds Ruby And Node.js Support
Appfog (previous CloudAve coverage), the PaaS player previously known as PHPFog, today announced support for Ruby and Node.js on their platform. This is nothing new or surprising and I can even say that this completes the process of removing any differentiation in terms of language support among the PaaS providers (yeah, I know that there […]

OSCON: The Web, It’s HUGE! Cloud Computing More Realistically…
It is day 3 of OSCON data & java, and the kick off to the main keynotes and core conference. There are a repeating topics throughout the conference: The Web, It’s Still HUGE! Imagine that! HTML 5, CSS3, JavaScript/jQuery/Node.js – This is starting to look like it will be the development stack of the web. […]

VMWare Disrupts PaaS Space With Cloud Foundry – An Analysis
VMware (previous CloudAve coverage) today announced Cloud Foundry, its Open Platform as a Service product, at a special event in Palo Alto. Cloud Foundry is both hosted and available as open source. More interestingly, it can run on your laptop or a single server or 1000s of VMs or, even, hundreds of dedicated servers. Apart […]